This legislation is all about restoring workers' rights to organize and improving the quality of life for workers and their families in communities across America.

Some of the stories I have heard and witnessed are deplorable.

the right to join a union is an internationally recognized human right and protected by Federal labor laws, but in the United States it is frequently violated in practice.

Another thing Jeb Bush did was he took away all requirements for absentee ballots, so an absentee ballot is just like a piece of toilet paper.

We have never had an election in Miami-Dade County that our office did not get a call about someone suppressing the vote of the precincts that are in majority Haitian districts.

My question to you is about the unsavory way in which this case led the Southern District of Florida to find that you specifically violated the law.

You claim to respect the rule of law. But as the Miami Herald has reported in detailed accounts, while a U.S. Attorney in my home State of Florida, you made questionable decisions during the prosecution of sex trafficker Jerry Epstein.

if you could so heartlessly cast aside your duty to protect the vulnerable in favor of a wealthy sex offender, I am extremely concerned that we can expect a similar pattern of indifference in your role as labor secretary.

This makes it difficult for me to seriously believe that as Labor Secretary, you are putting our workers and the vulnerable first.

We wear red today and every Wednesday to protest sexual abuse against kidnapped girls in Nigeria by the terrorist group Boko Haram, who is affiliated with ISIS.

It will disappear, Madam Chair, it will disappear, just like parts of Miami Beach.